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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you believe that the current system works well? The massive non-payment of use tax would seem to indicate that it doesn't; we even have people here claiming to be unaware that it even exists!
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Of course it works well.
Especially for taxpayers. Those that believe in tax-and-spend regimes get to put their own money where there mouths are and the rest...
Well, Non-payment of use tax is a valid form of civil disobedience.
And safe.
The assumption that government is rightfully entitled to all the citizen's money they choose to claim is not universally supported on this side of the pond. Never has been. You have heard about the Boston Tea Party and the Whiskey rebellion, right? Proposition 13? Rumrunners and moonshiners? Long history of stiffing Uncle Sam whenever possible. Use tax is simply the easiest and lowest risk way to do it today.
And use tax is far from the only tax that citizens choose to "not know about". Just ask New Yorkers about cigarrete smugglers. Or the effectiveness of sin taxes, which typically shift buyers to the nearest tax-free county. It's pretty common form of rebellion in a rebellious society.